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/lɛs/ adverb A2- Used for constructing syntactic diminutive comparatives of adjectives and adverbs. · This gadget is less useful than I expected.· I'm not any less happy for being on my own.
- To a smaller extent or degree. · The grammar book was less than (that is, not at all) helpful.· That this is a positive quality makes it no less a stereotype, and therefore unacceptable.
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“No less!
Anne’s consequent humiliation was less than it might have been, however, in view of the concert and the spare-room bed.
My first visit is due to my father, though I am not the less grateful for the honor you have done me.”
“True, Dantès, I forgot that there was at the Catalans someone who expects you no less impatiently than your father—the lovely Mercédès.”
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